Lab members

Head of the group. My research is influenced by the training I received as an algorithmicist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken, Germany and by my subsequent research as a senior scientist at Celera Genomics in Rockville, MD, USA. I aim to enable translational research in computationally based life sciences by removing existing (communication) gaps between theoretical algorithmicists, statisticians, programmers, and users in the biomedical field.I obtained my Diploma in Computer Science from Saarbrücken University and my PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science in Saabrücken.

Enrico Seiler will start in Dec. 2017 and work on distributed indices.

Temesgen H. Dadi works in Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities using machine learning methods. He graduated from Arba Minch University, Ethiopia in Computer Science and IT (B.Sc.) and received his Masters degree from University of Trento, Italy in Bioinformatics. Currently he woks in the InfectControl 2020 project with partners from the VetMed department.

Leon Kuchenbecker is a PhD student working in the Reinert and the Robinson lab.

René Rahn works on data parallel data structures in SeqAn. He holds a MSc and BSc degree from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Stefan is a joint PhD student with Annalisa Marsico.

Anja Kasseckert is the adminstrative assistant of the group.

Sabrina Krakau is PhD student in Annalisa Marsico's lab and co-supervised by Knut Reinert.

Julianus Pfeuffer is PhD student in Oliver Kohlbachers lab and at jointly FU Berlin. He also works in the EU Marina project as well as in the CIBI center of de.NBI.

Hannes Hauswedell obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin, but he also spent some time studying in Uppsala, Sweden and in Shanghai, China. He is interested in efficient software design in principal and the applicability to natural sciences in particular. He also likes mountains and the sea.

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Jonkyu has obtained his BSc degree in Information Technology from Handong Global University (South Korea) and his MSc in Computational Biology from Seoul National University (South Korea).

Marcel will work on parallelizing SeqAn using vectorization and multicore parallelism.

Christopher Pockrandt holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degress in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. He spent part of his studies at the National University of Singapore and the National Taiwan University. As an IMPRS student of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics he is currently doing his Ph.D. in bioinformatics focussing on string indices (especially the FMIndex) with applications in lncRNA search.

Jörg works on lncRNA finding.